[KLUG Members] gconftool settings. :-(

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>In my quest to make Evolution run remotely, I'm starting to come to the
>conclusion that Evolution isn't compatible with Redhat 8.0 settings.

The gnome on RH is GNOME 2.0.x,  Evo is a 1.4.x application, so in part your
right.  That's why so many people on the evo list are whining about the GNOME 2
port bieng so very late.

Are you using gconftool-1 or gconftool-2 to make setting changes?

>Comparing what settings Evolution wants for a proxy server (or fonts)
>from the documentation I've found on ximian.com doesn't match what I
>have in my gconf database on Redhat 8.0 according to gconftool.  
>(they seem to have different paths)

Probably a gconftool 1 vs. 2 thing.

>If I could find the settings evolution is reading, I could probably set
>them manually with gconftool.

I've got the evo source here, I'll take a look in there.

>And what's up with this gconftool crap anyway?  It looks so similar to a
>registry, it makes me want to puke.

It is a registry.  If you want integrated apps, you have to have a registry. 
But this registry is XML, not some binary cobble job, and is always accessed via
a server process that manages locking and state.